
Abdominal transplants
General surgery, including surgery for chronic pancreatitis
Surgical oncology - Liver, bile duct and pancreatic tumors
Clinical achievements:
First standardized technique for living donor intestinal transplants (1997)
First laparoscopic living donor distal pancreatectomy (2000)
First living donor liver transplant, first living donor intestine transplant, first combined liver and intestine transplant from living and deceases donors, first split liver transplants – all in Minnesota
First living and deceased intestinal transplants, first multivisceral transplant, first autologous islet transplant – all in AZ
Dr. Gruessner has authored and coauthored about 500 publications and published abstracts and 70 book chapters.
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Living Donor Organ Transplantation
Transplantation of the Pancreas